Quotes about book
book reading light
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound
book vision church
I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. Ezra Taft Benson
book proof prove
We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof. Ezra Taft Benson
book teaching hands
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord. Ezra Taft Benson
book reading years
Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed. Ezra Taft Benson
book men soul
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress. Ezra Taft Benson
book understanding scripture
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious. Ezra Taft Benson
book needs
Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it. Ezra Taft Benson
book covenant approval
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone. Ezra Taft Benson
book home giving
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. Ezra Taft Benson
book men eagles
Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and has earned the Duty of God Award and is an Eagle Scout. Give me a young man who is a Seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me such a young man, and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life. Ezra Taft Benson
book blessing men
The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us. Ezra Taft Benson
book taken years
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. Eve Bunting
book writing titles
Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written. Eve Bunting
book writing retiring
I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books. Eve Bunting
book needs theme
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. Eve Bunting
book writing body
I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical...it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book. Eve Ensler
book thinking expression
It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story. Eve Ensler
book thinking body
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor." Eve Ensler
book television radio
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs. Eugene McCarthy
book school doe
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. Eugenio Montale
book school men
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. Francis Marion Crawford
book writing dna
I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself. Francis Collins
book writing wanted
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Francis Ford Coppola
book heart darkness
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. Francis Ford Coppola
book reading more-the-merrier
the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books Francine Pascal
book reading might
I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter. Francine Prose
book reading writing
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. Francine Prose
book names stories
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. Francis Bacon
book evolution science-books
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Francis Bacon
book speak counselor
Books speak plain when counselors blanch. Francis Bacon
book believe attention
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Francis Bacon
book men renovation
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Francis Bacon